Australia At School. Australia and Your Future No. 4.

Produced by the National Film Board 1947. This film provides an overview of Australia's primary and secondary education system in the late 1940s. It looks at the various types of schools in the city and the outback and follows one girl from primary to high school. The film was intended primarily for English migrants who proposed to settle in Australia.

[@NFSAFilms]

Hi Matt yes we will be uploading the others. Only four in the Australia and Your Future series. "Christmas Under The Sun" is already published. "This is The Life" and "Men Wanted" to go. Thanks for your comment.

[@yurilemming4130]

I started state school in 52 at age of 6yo spoke Russian at home, didn't really speak nor understand english language, within 6 months had a good grasp & never really noticed the transition, only had one wrestle more likely because was new kid at new school, never encountered any discrimination of any sort, we lived amongst young aussie families in suburb, integration was painless because my father had excellent english & that helped.

[@56bluegold]

Great video. In my opinion that was a much better time to have lived in.

[@sabah4123]

There was discipline in schools, which is crucial for children. That's gone...shameful. 🇦🇺

[@BernStuland]

The old news readers sounded more like the they are from the UK with a touch of Australian accent.. our accent has changed over the years.

[@williamellis6176]

yes it's a terribly rare accent the cultivated Australian accent. I've done a fair bit of research into it because I'm practically the only person I know who speaks with one lol. Although its not as severe as that one, generally newsreaders would put it on a lot to sound more posh.

[@NFSAFilms]

Okay I can see it now too. All good. Thanks for the response. Have attached original reply.

[@danrobinson572]

Great video!!

[@mattyo30]

these videos just keep getting better! Are you able to upload the rest of this series?

[@eduardobraivein8496]

From what can be inferred after watching this video, Australian education was quite comprehensive and tailored to everyone's needs. Am I right?

[@NFSAFilms]

Generally speaking. But maybe there were less "needs" back then.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

water at rest always forms a level surface. some say charles darwin's real ocupation was royal court jester. and that ain't even half of it. #flat like the nullabor plane.

[@56bluegold]

Thoughts were much better days, back than !

[@NFSAFilms]

Yes, the image the Government wanted to project to potential migrants (English) not necessarily the reality.

[@pinkmagicali]

It's a pity school doesn't still want to teach outside of books. By the time I went through school it was all about books even in primary school. It's also a pity that we're not taught practical skills for life at school anymore. I'm nostalgic and like things like shorthand (it's like a secret language now) but food tech (cooking) was useless. Learning how to make a cake doesn't help know about basic nutrition or cooking or anything. I feel we should revert for a lot of things. School seems so removed from the student's lives and from parents now. No one really knows what's going on or has a say.

[@eduardobraivein8496]

Probably. Life used to be simpler and less competitive back in the olddays.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

yes good comment. Also, @ 0:01 i can clearly see the red ensign. COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA is a registered company, deceiving the people since 1953 or so...

[@rodneypodesta6087]

Is that Vineyard near riverstone and Windsor nsw

[@slahinggodz3026]

My school is way older mine was 1852 and the school is still here

[@naomiklahn4623]

Lovely to see the children outside in the 🌞 getting all that great VitD 👍 And look- no obesity!

[@kelliebell1070]

Wake up Australia

[@steveparfitt4908]

Had the right idea back then. What happened?

[@stewb9044]

this is why Australia has done well,been there

[@naomiklahn4623]

Do you know what school this was?

[@NFSAFilms]

You're right. It's propaganda. The early immigration films, like this one, made by the Government were conspicuous in the absence of indigenous people and culture. These films were made deep in the time of the White Australia Policy. Later, as the film makers started to gain more control over the films they made and as governments became slightly more progressive, more inclusive and interesting films were made about other aspects of the Australian experience. Thanks for you comment.

[@stephenfitzpatrick9189]

And then culture gave way to economiç rationalisation , privatisation and profit .

[@Dmentias]

What a fiction. In reality schools of the 40s and 50s had little equipment classes of 40+ students and no help for the non-english speaking students. High school was the exception not the rule. There were not enough high schools and most people couldn't afford them. Kids still left for work at 14 or 15 to help support their families. Sex segregation would have been strict on the playground in the classroom as well as learning streams and specialist schools.

[@tefllife2024]

In those days real classrooms had mad teachers hitting kids on the knuckles with rulers. This is somewhat a futuristic ideal.

[@1lafchris]

That french teacher didn't speak french lol

[@JUIC3D_T0MAT0]

I-

[@kimberleyh9509]

A time when Australians welcomed immigrants.

[@kyliemiljkovic3873]

Yes, but those immigrants were not threatening our way of life. They assimilated and didn't want to bring their problems from the countries they were escaping from.

[@m.f.8752]

Where's the Aboriginal Cultural studies. What, no clean-cut Aboriginal kids with neat parts in their hair and dressed smartly in uniforms?

[@MindoverMatrix2012]

100% agree with badimiagirl1 ..and its not just what you say and that is very important "shiny bright, white images" its bloody disgraceful! but its what the Australian children up till today are being taught ..its ALL lies just like this new so called aboriginal tv NITV what a joke that turned out to be I hear they play the Maori news spoken in their native language Maori ..there is bugger all information on NITV that hasn't already been shown on SBS years ago it makes me very angry&upset

[@internezzo]

The past should NEVER have happened.